The report does point to the benefits of nuclear power, including competitive pricing, strong base-load power provision, and low-carbon emissions.
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High performance is traditionally measured against key business imperatives including competitive differentiation, sales, attracting and retaining talent, operational efficiency, return on investment and profitability.
Still, public hospitals are being given greater independence to help them become more competitive - including organizing fund-raising activities.
But allowing schools to engage in a bidding war to compensate top college athletes renders its own set of problems including a worsening of competitive imbalance.
He sees multiple catalysts for the shares ahead, including a less promotional competitive environment, easier earnings compares starting in the second half and into 2013, and share repurchases.
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With new entrants possibly coming to the market, including BATS, the competitive environment will likely help retail investors get cheaper prices, says Paul Zubulake, senior analyst at Aite Group.
Seeking treble damages, the suit accuses Thomson of using its two CCBN board seats to steal confidential information--including pricing data and competitive analysis--that helped it create a rival service, and of hiring people who had confidentiality agreements with CCBN.
Seeking treble damages, the suit accuses Thomson of using its two seats on CCBN's board to steal confidential information--including pricing data and competitive analysis--that helped it create a rival service and of hiring people who had confidentiality agreements with CCBN.
Brazil fumes (and rightly so) over anti-dumping and other punitive duties on its most competitive exports, including shoes and orange juice as well as steel.
The retailer offered its employees a "competitive package" including performance-related pay, with permanent employees also offered benefits including healthcare and a personal pension plan, it added.
Perhaps to remind himself how tough the future world will be, Son practices his golf game at home, in an electronic range that reproduces the most difficult competitive conditions, including wind and rain.
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"For almost 10 years, the cartelists carried out the most harmful anti-competitive practices, including price fixing, market sharing, customer allocation, capacity and output coordination and exchanges of commercial sensitive information", the commission said.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth has said if Clinton fails again, he will push for a stripped-down alternative that would focus on industries in which the U.S. has a competitive edge, including information technology.
Google offers a slew of competitive business applications, including its best-of-breed hosted e-mail security product acquired through Postini, so Microsoft desperately needs to improve its response to the Internet search giant.
Olympus has managed to carve out a niche in the competitive DSLR market by including features that you won't find on cameras from Canon or Nikon, such as its ultrasonic dust-removal system.
But, as acknowledged in the paper, governments intervene in currency markets to pursue a variety of policy objectives (not just to secure an exporter advantage), including to defend the currency from competitive devaluations.
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Direct efforts to improve the supply of credit to companies - including by making the banking sector more competitive - might well fall into this category.
Governing body British Cycling said there had been a 25% increase in Welsh members in the last year - about 70% of them are competitive cyclists with the rest including commuters.
Governing body British Cycling said there had been a 25% increase in Welsh members in the year to August 2012 - about 70% of those are competitive cyclists with the rest including commuters.
Nasdaq is also battling competitive forces at home, including an upstart Kansas City electronic network known as BATS Trading, which has siphoned some 15% of the matched and routed orders from Nasdaq in its own listed shares.
Mr. Clarke believes that the economic and competitive climate in some markets, including the UK, has become more challenging and that Tesco should therefore concentrate its resources on ensuring a strong position in its core UK markets.
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Media companies argue that the market has become increasingly competitive and uncertain for many reasons, including internet piracy and tumbling box-office receipts.
My sense is that the yen is still overvalued, pushed up by the relative weakness and competitive devaluation policies of other countries, including the U.S. But at least, for Japanese industry, the worst seems to be over, and confidence is returning, bouyed in no small measure by the blowout profit performance and forecast by the emaculate Toyota (NYSE:TM).
He provides advisory and consulting services to buyers and vendors, including Newvem, to optimize the adoption of technology for competitive advantage.
More often than not, it reflects disruptive industry, competitive, macroeconomic or other external events, including premature departures caused by health issues, career choices and other unplanned events.
Because of the skyrocketing costs of medical care coupled with overhead expenses, including the need to spend big bucks on TV to remain competitive, it is hard for the private market to scratch out much of a profit.
Facebook also operates in an extremely competitive industry with many major, deep pocketed rivals, including experienced, well financed rivals like Google.
Ghorb is the parent of 812 affiliate companies which, according to estimates by the U.S. Treasury Department and Western intelligence services cited by Time Magazine, collectively employ around 40, 000 people and have won approximately 1, 700 government contracts, including billions of dollars in energy-related contracts awarded without a competitive bidding process.
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Many groups - including the AMA - have expressed concern that a public plan would have competitive advantages that would ultimately drive private insurers out of the market.
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